Plugin compatibility note

NetworkManager maintains backward compatibility with older plugin versions. That means that the plugin version 0.9.10.0 will work with later NetworkManager versions, such as 1.2.

There's one exception to this: the editor plugins were ported to new libnm library in NetworkManager 1.2. The older version of the library can not coexist in a single process. Thus, the newer libnm-based nm-connection-editor will not be able to edit the VPN connections unless you also upgrade the VPN plugin.

For VPN plugins, the major-minor version indicates the minimal required NetworkManager version. It is therefore expected and correct that for certain NetworkManager versions there exists no matching VPN plugin version. For example, for NetworkManager-pptp might not exist a 1.4.0 version because the latest 1.2.x version is suitable and up-to-date to run against NetworkManager 1.4.0.